I'm not tech savvy so bear with me. Does this backup drive let you do automatic present backups, such as daily or weekly?
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It is a portable unit so unless you leave it plugged into your computer you will not be able to do backups but if you leave it attached all the time you can have auto backup through your antivirus program like Norton
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I just leave it connected to my computer and backup once a day using time machine. There's no charge that I'm aware of for the cloud back-up.
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That's exactly how I'm using the drive. I do a scheduled backup of changes to specific dirs to the drive using USB.
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Hi, I'm so sorry, I can't help you: I never, ever use the back up software in these drives, my laptop is already slow and I find it makes it worst, so I copy/updates my files manually. Good luck with yours!
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Hi, yes it is a very reliable backup drive, I would get a backup program like novastor which is very good and back up your whole computer. Take care any question just ask me
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Yes it's justs plug and play and it's recognized by any OS. I use windows backup with no problems.The drive itself is amazingly fast! I'd say it has cut hours a week in productivity.
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We set it up to sync. with Google Cloud for automatic backup real time, but you can program it to sync. with Drop Box, Windows cloud, and many other services. Check their website, I think there is more information there and instructions on how to do it.
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Good question. My IT brother says to use 2 external hard drives & back each of them up periodically, but keep one off-site. Other opinions/ideas?
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Yes, I have. There is no problem doing this as these drives are generic. However, the company I bought it from sent me one which appeared new (with new packaging) but tested as having thousands of hours of use on it. The test said it was working just fine but it wasn't a new device. I did not pursue the matter further as I did not intend to put this computer into daily use and it was not worth the hassle.
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I have not yet started using my 4TB Backup Plus, so I don't know the capabilities. Sorry.
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No it does not. This system functions much like a simple External HDD with all the benefits of a raid. I have several sites that share information from backups of my main 16TB unit, all of which are 12TB or smaller. A complete backup would only require the amount of space that is currently in use on your main drive.
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Yes, the device can be used as a NAS (Network Attached Storage) if you connect a USB HHD, SD card, USB drive. I am not sure if it has a program to do automatic backups, but it will serve as the NAS no problem!
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You can configure the drive however you like (raid 1 or 0) and it works stand-alone or daisy chained. It's a very flexible and reliable drive.
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Yes. You can specify which folders to be backed up, the type and frequency to be used.
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Short answer: yes. Depending on how your volumes are setup you can use it as a standard backup or time backup. My synology server runs two primary raid volumes with a 3rd for just system and core data backups + plus a global hot spare in bay 5.
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yes. The G-drive is an external hard drive and you can drag photos or documents onto it manually. It does not d an automatic backup though.
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You can also plug a USB HDD in and do a content drag and drop from explorer, or use something like the free versions of EASUS, Paragon, Free sync etc., set up a back up and let it run overnight, but you have to be willing to become an active participant in your data backup routine, at least once. The plus is that you can back up what's important to you and not the fluff that might accumulate like TV shows you aren't going to watch again.